Woodbridge/Carteret Top Stories
By JOHN MOONEY
July 23, 2025
HOPELAWN, NJ — They came. They bowled. And they raised more than $235,000 for hunger relief in Middlesex County.As part of his continuous efforts to eliminate food insecurity in New Jersey, Assembly Speaker Craig J. Coughlin (D-19th Dist.) held his 16th Annual “Bowl for Hunger” event on Monday, ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A developer can move forward with a plan to construct a 23-story, mixed-use building with 331 apartments in New Brunswick.The applicant, 90 Bayard Group Urban Renewal LLC – a subsidiary of Woodbridge-based Wick Companies – received two variances from the Planning Board at its ...
IRVINGTON, NJ — A Piscataway man was fatally shot late Monday night in Irvington, and now authorities are investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, according to Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II.Stephens said Irvington police responded to reports of gunfire around 10 ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Rita’s Ice is collecting brand-new backpacks stocked with school supplies – now until Thursday, July 31st – to benefit youngsters in foster care in partnership with CASA of Middlesex County.Rita’s Ice & Frozen Custard, at 755 Saint Georges Ave., has held annual school backpack ...
MONTVILLE - The gavel has been passed to the next president of the New Jersey State Association of Chiefs of Police (NJSACOP) during a recent ceremony at the police chief’s 113th-annual Training Conference & Police/Security Expo in Atlantic City.Andrew Caggiano, the chief of the Montville ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Another 43 local youngsters are the newest graduates from the Police Department’s Eric Ransom Junior Police Academy, finishing its second summer session with a ceremony on Friday with police and municipal officials on hand.The junior police academy’s first summer session ended on ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — This city’s Board of Education wants to rename an elementary school that bears Woodrow Wilson’s name, citing the 28th president’s racist legacy that prompted Princeton University, the Camden School District, and others to remove his name from buildings in recent years.Yesenia ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Nasto’s Ice Cream is a Newark landmark, famous for its delightful ice cream flavors and other delicious “old world desserts” in the city’s Ironbound since 1939.Now, for the first time in its 86-year history, Nasto's plans to open a second shop in Woodbridge’s new Cloverleaf ...
NEW JERSEY – The NJ Department of Human Services (DHS) is trying to help people find family, friends and neighbors who may be detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).DHS is encouraging New Jersey residents to use the ICE locator website to find out where people are being ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ — A township public works crew member was struck in a hit-and-run incident after a driver bypassed work zone barriers on Friday, July 18th and drove into a road repaving project, local officials said.The incident happened on Suttons Lane near the Middlesex County Magnet School where ...
TRENTON, NJ — School districts in Carteret and Woodbridge are among 18 in Middlesex County to receive money from two state grants that total nearly $3.75 million for local literacy programs that will benefit younger students.The Carteret School District received $11,120 and the Woodbridge School ...
This is Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac and today is Friday, July 18.Our Summer Concert Series continues with 9 South tonight at Anchors Tiki Bar, Live at the Fillmore covering the Allman Brothers Sunday, Lady Supreme covering Diana Ross Monday and Stevie Mac covering Fleetwood Mac Tuesday, all at ...
WESTFIELD, NJ — Quick action by Councilman Todd Saunders during Monday’s severe storm and flooding helped reunite a Westfield tween with her crucial diabetes monitoring device while her parents were out of town.“Monday evening, during the severe storms and flash flooding in Union County, our ...
NEWARK, NJ — Construction has begun on the first phase Newark's Greenway – a nine-mile, 100-foot-wide former railroad bed from Essex to Hudson counties that will be turned into the Garden State’s newest state park.Gov. Phil Murphy joined local, county and state officials in Newark on Tuesday to ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Eight Woodbridge area college students, and one from Carteret, recently received honors from their respective colleges and universities. TAPinto Woodbridge-Carteret is pleased to acknowledge our local academic achievers as they become available. Here are the most recent:UNIVERSITY ...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — A veteran township police officer has been charged with stealing more than $75,000 from his Policeman’s Benevolent Association (PBA) chapter, according to the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office, which is handling the case.Abraham “Jason” Gassman, 53, turned himself in to ...
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — Maureen Berzok, who served as the editor of TAPinto East Brunswick for more than a decade, was honored with a Township Council proclamation earlier this week.The proclamation, read by Council President Kevin McEvoy, recognized Berzok for her outstanding service to the East ...
BERKELEY HEIGHTS, N.J. — Gov. Phil Murphy visited Berkeley Heights on Tuesday morning to survey the aftermath of a storm that dropped more than six inches of rain in under two and a half hours, triggering flash flooding, buckling roadways, and toppling utility poles across the township.“Last night, ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ — The National Weather Service has issued a “flood watch” to start at 3 pm today for Middlesex County and six other counties, with another round of showers and thunderstorms expected to bring heavy downpours.Today’s storms may be capable of dropping up to 2-inches of rain, or ...
PISCATAWAY, NJ — Conrail employees investigating a report of downed power lines on the tracks at the New Market Road rail crossing instead became heroes for saving the life of a man found floating face down in fast-moving flood water during Monday’s storm. Piscataway Mayor Brian Wahler described ...
CARTERET-WOODBRIDGE, NJ — Like most New Jersey communities, Monday evening’s heavy, wind-swept rain downpour deluged Carterert and Woodbridge, according to police and local officials.The powerful storm prompted Gov. Phil Murphy to declare a state of emergency due to flooding and dangerous driving ...
SOUTH BRUNSWICK, NJ — Luis Duval-Jimenez, the man charged with attempted murder of a police officer in South Brunswick, was arrested in June as part of the U.S. Marshal’s ‘Operation Apex Hammer,’ according to their office. This coordinated effort, including federal, state, and local law ...
TRENTON, NJ — The NJ Attorney General’s Office has released dramatic police body-camera videos from a June 13, 2024, gunfight at a hotel in the Fords section of Woodbridge that ended in a suspect’s death and two cops getting wounded.The fatal shooting happened at the Raritan Hotel, near Royal ...
TRENTON, NJ — The NJ Attorney General’s Office has released the names of a moped driver who died on July 6th and a Perth Amboy police lieutenant who pursued him along State Street into Woodbridge’s Sewaren section.The state NJ Attorney General’s Office says Joseph E. Acevedo-Rodriguez, 26, of ...
EDISON, NJ — Federal agents detained at least 20 alleged “undocumented aliens” during last week’s surprise raid at a Heller Park liquor warehouse near the Middlesex College campus, a US Department of Homeland Security spokesperson has confirmed.On Tuesday, July 8th, three dozen armed agents from ...
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — A woman is facing charges after police said she tried to stab a police officer and a firefighter before barricading herself in a home on Harvey Street.The woman, whose identity was not released by authorities, is facing two counts of aggravated assault and one count of ...
WOODBRIDGE, NJ — The Police Department’s 15th annual Eric Ransom Junior Police Academy graduated 47 youngsters from its first 2025 summer session at a ceremony featuring police brass and municipal officials.The Eric Ransom Junior Police Academy is unlike any other in New Jersey. It is rigorous and ...
SAYREVILLE, NJ — Ashland Global Holdings at 50 Hercules Veterans Way – a global additives & pecialty ingredients company, has announced the closure of its manufacturing facility in Parlin as part of its $60 million manufacturing network optimization plan. It is likely to result in the loss ...
MIDDLESEX COUNTY, NJ – Melissa Ruiz, a graduate of the Middlesex College Nursing Program, has been elected to serve as the Class of 2025 student representative to the Middlesex College Board of Trustees for the academic year 2025-2026.Each year, Middlesex College graduating students recommend and ...
I’m Woodbridge Mayor John McCormac. It’s Friday, July 11th, 2025.Our free summer concert series continues tonight with “Yacht Lobsters” performing at Anchors Tiki Bar. There are also 7:30 pm performances by “The Highway Boys” on Sunday; “Fireflies” on Monday; and “Broken Arrow” covering Neil Young, ...